I just watched the new Colin and Samir video titled 'Why MrBeast should sell his channel' about Fractional Ownership. I can recommend the video for all creators interested in new and creative ways to monetise, and I can recommend their whole channel for when you're looking for a good mix of entertainment, but still on topic to the creator economy. I liked the video for two reasons. First, it got me thinking about ways we can all collaborate together on one project as a community. I'm still in the really early days with this thought, and I have no idea how it would pan out in reality, but I think something really fun and rewarding could happen with the most active members of this community. The newsletter is step 1 on this process. Second, it taught me a lesson about thumbnails and titles. If I had to summarise YouTube success in a few words it would be this: Make videos people want. In Colin and Samir's example, not many people think they want to watch videos about Fractional Ownership, but lots of people want to watch videos about MrBeast. I think I need to do a better job at tailoring my videos to be more aligned with what people want. I recently recorded a video about 'How To Be Consistent', but I think it would do even better if it was titled something like 'How Is Ali Abdaal / Graham Stephan So Consistent!?" Same contents, but framed in a way that people want. So a really important question for us all to ask is: what content to people want? Where is attention? I made a list: 1. Big YouTubers 2. Celebrities / Actors / Movies 3. Web 3 / Crypto 4. Politics 5. News I'm wondering what would happen if 95% of videos I made had a theme related to the above. Charisma on Command grew their channel using Celebrity clickbait, but I don't watch any movies/know about celebrities. Web3 could definitely fit into the occasional piece of my content. E.g. Web3 for content creators, or if I'm making a video about staying focused, I can use Web3 as an example of a distraction that eats attention.

Just found (and fell in love with) this quote: “I believe that the job we all have in life is to acquire knowledge and wisdom and then share it" - Tobi Lutke, founder of Shopify. Source: https://theobservereffect.org/tobi.html

I assume a lot of us are hard workers. But sometimes it very difficult to continue a specific activity for hours. When we take breaks, it always ends up becoming 10 minute break or an hour break. In other words, the break is a lot more than what we planned for. However, instead of taking a break when you are feeling the most exhausted. Take breaks when you are feeling the most excited. Here's an example. - You like to draw so you practice drawing a circle. All of your circles come out rubbish and you have been going at this for hours. The moment you draw that circle you like so much. Drop the pencil. That feeling of "FINALLY" is a positive emotion. When you go on break, you will be thinking about that positive emotion or feeling thus warranting a trip back to your "work". This increases productivity for me, so why don't you guys try it out. Tell me what you think.

So many people here have started their channel already, or are so far along. I'm not like comparing myself, but I really want to be on the first step! But rushing it wouldn't help much... There are just so many projects I'm excited about! Man, I'm gonna finish the short story I started & send it to my teacher... Then I'll wrap up the Christmas gifts and then all my attention belongs to making my first YouTube video! (This is fine. Right??? Anyone else struggling with this?)

Took months of scripting and editing to synthesize something as big as "Loneliness", but here it is! Loneliness: An Era of False Freedom - YouTube